_Because God is truly glorious, and idols are vanity, the Psalmist exhorteth to confidence in him. God is to be praised for his blessings._ THERE is great reason to think that this psalm was composed in some time of great distress, when the pagan enemies of the Jews began to boast as if their gods w... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER SPEAK THEY— Or, _Neither breathe they._... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY THAT MAKE THEM ARE LIKE UNTO THEM— Are in this respect as stupid and blockish as those idols themselves, inasmuch as they do not make a regular use of those faculties which God hath given them, in relying upon him only; but on the contrary depend upon such inanimate gods.... [ Continue Reading ]
O ISRAEL, TRUST THOU IN THE LORD— _Israel trusteth in the Lord;_ and so in the following verses the verbs should be read in the indicative; as we find them in the LXX; and the sense requires it to be said, _Israel doth trust,_ &c. to mark the difference between their trust and that of the heathen: a... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD HATH BEEN MINDFUL OF US— _The Lord remembereth us._ Mudge: who remarks, that the priest says this upon observing the favourable signal: "The Lord will certainly bless all those (recapitulating the fore-mentioned) who trust in him.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SHALL INCREASE YOU— _The Lord will heap blessings upon you._ Here the author turns himself to them, and assures them of the favour of him who made heaven and earth; who therefore would preserve them, and not suffer them to go down among the dead. ףּיס _iosep,_ though I have translated it gen... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEAD PRAISE NOT THE LORD— See on Psalms 6:5. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The Psalmist here, 1. Bids the people of God ascribe not to themselves, but to Jehovah, the glory of their salvation, as derived from his boundless mercy. _Note;_ We must be ever in our own eyes nothing, and Christ all in all: to h... [ Continue Reading ]